As an organization leader I am interested in some of the future in-game organizational modules / utilities you have planned to aid in the running of the business / trade side of the verse, such as accounting, market costs for resources such as fuel, ore, etc.asked by SiorAlpin_wolf
TL;DRChris Roberts says CIG plans to expand organisation management (assets, finances, assigning tasks) on the website alongside in-game features, and later build tablet and phone apps, though not before the Persistent Universe features.
Ok, so I assume that question is about what kind of applications or interfaces we're looking to allow, for people to manage the logistics of their organisation. The answer is we're going to do a fair amount. We're going to do a lot on our Roberts Space Industries site - so we already have the very beginning of the organization stuff, but that's going to expand as game features come online in the Persistent Universe, in terms of managing the assets of the organization, the finances of it, being able to assign jobs or tasks to people, and we'll let you see a lot of that on the website.We're also planning on building some mobile apps, or you know, tablet apps, that will also allow you to do that and interface and manage the logistics, or check in on who's accepted missions, what missions are out there, what the current news it in the universe... So we're definitely going to have a fairly big suite of that. Obviously it's not going to be the stuff that's like... that won't be before the stuff that's actually happening in the Persistent Universe, but we do some of that in parallel, so Turbulent who do all our web stuff and do great stuff - they're building the organization system and then we're also going to be replicating that inside the Persistent Universe. So that's sort of lock-step there, and then at some point once we've got enough of a suite of that then we'll drop that down into specific applications that will be working on things like tablets and phones and stuff.The idea is that even if you're not sitting at a desktop, you'll be able to plug into the universe and sort of see what's happening, or maybe set up a mission for later, or manage some resources, or get notifications of stuff that's happening so when you get back onto your desktop (or powerful laptop) you'll be ready and prepared.